Anthony: When was your first remembrance of having an
interest in the
dangers of nuclear radiation and what did you try to do about it?

Caldicott: I read On the Beach as a teenager. I did nothing about
it until
the French began above-ground testing in the Pacific in the late 60s,
early
70s, and I led the Australian movement against the French tests.

Anthony: Was there a particular person, whose influence as an
educator you
treasure?

Caldicott: My mother was a very astute political thinker.

Anthony: Your first significant conflict with government, was
it a defeat?

Caldicott: Australia and New Zealand stopped the French above
ground tests
in the Pacific, a significant victory.

Anthony: Phillip Berrigan, of whom I recently did an interview
from prison,
feels that his total commitment to peace is of religious conviction.
Do you
have a conviction?

Caldicott: Yes, I do, although I am a Pantheist. All the more
reason.

Anthony: How has being a doctor aided or hindered your passion,
your drive
to get rid of nuclear proliferation?

Caldicott: Helped, but I have severely regretted giving up medicine
to do
this work.

Anthony: If nuclear energy proliferation is not a necessary commodity,
what
can countries, like Japan, use to run their economies? How?

Caldicott: All the alternative energy sources of which there
are many,
combined with conservation.

Anthony: Do you consider nuclear energy the major and most dangerous
weapon
of mass destruction? Who is in danger?

Caldicott: A nuclear war would cause nuclear winter and the
end of most
life on earth.

Anthony: How has the quality of life changed? It has just been
reported
that fertility, in America, has been significantly lowered. Why do
you
think so?

Caldicott: I don't know. Possibly some of the 80,000 or so chemicals
to
which we are all exposed in our daily lives.

Anthony: Who makes the most money on the sale of nuclear fuel?
What
is thesource? How long will it last?

Caldicott: The nuclear industry. It will last until the people
say no and
close down the reactors.

Anthony: What would the world have to do to get rid of the nuclear
energy
binge? What can one do to reeducate public thinking?

Caldicott: Teach through the media, and I am establishing a Nuclear
Policy
Research Institute in California specifically to place well-informed
people
on the major media as we did in the eighties to educate the American
people
about the true medical and ecological dangers of the nuclear age. Thus
I
believe we can end the nuclear age within the next five years.

Anthony: Margaret Mead told me, in our last interview,
we live in a runaway world
with nobody in charge. Would the super rich rather be sick than poor?

Caldicott: I suppose so. I can't speak for their immorality.

Anthony: For my interviews, in the archives at Dartmouth, for
our great
grandchildren of 2020, what do we have to say about their futures?

Caldicott: I hope they have one and it depends on each one of
us to ensure
that they do.